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Dr. Elizabeth Severino & the
Angel-Wonder Powers Team
Chat'N'Pray
June 29, 2008

"Doing What Delights Us"

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Dr.Liz - logged on. - from . using Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) on Thu Jun 26 9:05pm ET)
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Joanne - Hi, Dr. Liz, Somaaura
Dr.Liz - Hi, Joanne!
Joanne - I just got back from my trip East.
Dr.Liz - How was it?
Joanne - My sisters wedding was beatiful.
Dr.Liz - :)
Dr.Liz - Were you in the wedding party?
Joanne - I got to see all my great nieces and nephews except one.
Joanne - No -- daughters and sons -- grandchildren etc.
Dr.Liz - What fun!
Joanne - I finally got to meet Julia (Teka reincarnated) and Jack (Shujaa reincarnated). They both gave me very long looks but other than that no other recognition.
Dr.Liz - <grin> To them, that may be recognition enough! LOL!
Joanne - I ended up going with a pet sitter at the house. I think it worked out but I'm not getting much. What do Bear and Ruger say about Robbie they're caretaker. I agree (about Teka and Shujaa).
Joanne - Bear said he was uptight and he had a little fun with him.
Joanne - He's only 16 and he wants to be a vet. He also lost Bear when Bear decided a rabbit was more fun.
Dr.Liz - They're saying they ran the show, not the caretaker.
Joanne - I got that impression. Did he take good care of them though?
Dr.Liz - They don't know how to answer you. What does "take good care of them" mean to you?
Joanne - Feed them. Give them their supplements. Walk them enough. Spend enough time with them. Not keep Ruger in the crate too long.
Dr.Liz - They say he dropped some things and was awkward with their leashes. Fine on the food, though, they say.
Joanne - Did they like him? Should I use him again?
Dr.Liz - They said he was awkard but kind of fun.
Dr.Liz - oops. awkward not awkard.
Joanne - Is he trainable?
Joanne - He certainly took good care of my house.
Marge - logged on. - from . using Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.1) on Thu Jun 26 9:21pm ET)
Marge - Hi Dr. Liz and Joanne
Joanne - So how are you, Dr. Liz? What's new in your life?
Joanne - Hi Marge!
Dr.Liz - <grin> They think they already HAVE him trained! LOL!
Dr.Liz - Hi, Marge!
Joanne - I know they have him trained -- can I train him (I guess that's hard for you to answer).
Dr.Liz - Joanne, my sense is, Yes.
Dr.Liz - Marge, any world on your home?
Dr.Liz - I mean, "word" not "world" ... LOL!
Joanne - Perhaps I'll suggest he does some obediance classes.
Marge - world might be good Liz, LOL. ... on my home?
Marge - ... meaning my move whenever???
Dr.Liz - Well, at one point, you were anticipating that the property would be sold ...
Dr.Liz - Yes, meaning your move wherever ... in the world ... LOL!
Joanne - Are you moving?
Joanne - That may be my own fate soon.
Marge - Liz, no the property size etc hasn't been finalized yet, so no, it is not sold yet. Yes Joanne, but i don't know when.
Dr.Liz - I had someone write and offer to buy my house. Marge, you're a realtor, how does someone respond to that? I got a note from two people who said in their note, a very pleasant note, that they'd like to buy my house ....
Marge - there was a glitch that delayed a few things in the subdivision
Joanne - Close? Far?
Dr.Liz - Marge, is this "glitch" a good "glitch" or a bad "glitch" ... I feel suddenly like I'm in the Wizard of Oz ... LOL!
Dr.Liz - Joanne, I must be in some kind of mood tonight ... I read "close" and "far" and suddenly I'm hearing the words and music from the song, toeanic ... "near, far, wherever you are ...." LOL!
Dr.Liz - toeanic means T i t a n i c … this browser has an editor … LOL …
Marge - Well, Liz, ... if you're ready to move, name a 'price' ... if you're not ready to move, name an unbelievably high price and see what happens????? ... only be careful of that one as I'm not sure of the laws in your state
Dr.Liz - Marge, are there laws governing prices?????
Marge - the glitch was neither good nor bad, it just delayed the whole process because it had to be resurveyed and so we still don't know how many acres it will be
Joanne - Marge, any thoughts on buying a home this summer. I rent now but I'm moving. Don't know if this is a good time with the real estate market what it is. Any thoughts?
Dr.Liz - Marge, LOL, got it!
Dr.Liz - Gee,Joanne, here, it's considered a buyer's market ...
Marge - Liz , I'm not aware of laws that govern prices, but I here if you offer a property (in writing) for as high a price as you want to, and the buyer goes for it in writing with no other terms or conditions, you'll have to honor the contract
Joanne - I'm in MO and I'm afraid prices might go down drastically next year.
Dr.Liz - Marge, oh, thank you, I didn't know that.
Dr.Liz - Makes sense, though.
Joanne - Leaving me with an upside down mortgage.
Marge - Joanne ... I'm in Alberta, Canada ... so I can't comment on your market
Joanne - Wow! Is it beautiful?
Marge - Joanne ... if you think that might happen, would you rather wait til next year?
Marge - ... is MO ... Missouri or Montana?
Dr.Liz - Joanne ... where Marge is? Yes, it's gorgeous!
Joanne - Don't know. I would rather move once.
Joanne - Missouri
Dr.Liz - Isn't Lynda in Missouri?
Marge - Joanne, I believe it's the prettiest part of a good portion of the world ... although I haven't seen much of the world only in pictures, LOL, LOL
Joanne - Who's Lynda?
Dr.Liz - Marge ... LOL LOL LOL
Joanne - Then, you are blessed!
Marge - Yes, Liz, I was just going to say that Lynda is now a realtor in MO.
Dr.Liz - Joanne, Marge and I have a mutual friend named Lynda, who I believe lives in Missouri, and who is a Realtor ...
Marge - Yes Liz, she lives in MO
Dr.Liz - Joanne, I just emailed you Lynda's email address.
Joanne - Anyway I could contact her? What part of the state is she in? Do you know?
Joanne - Thanks! That should be a great help!
Marge - This ties in nicely with the chat topic for tonight, eh? ... 'Finding Balance in our Lives"
Joanne - Marge, did you grow up in Alberta or move there?
Dr.Liz - Marge ... yes!
Marge - Joanne, I grew up in the province of Saskatchewan, which is next to Alberta.
Joanne - I seem to go to extremes. Do too little or too much.
Joanne - Lucky you. Is it cold in the winter?
Dr.Liz - Personally, finding balance in my life has always been an off and on again struggle for me. It seems that when I get my personal life going well, work doesn't get as much time as it needs; and when I get my work life going really well, my personal and/or recreational and/or health life doesn't seem to go as well as it could.
Dr.Liz - And sometimes my spiritual life is going really well, and all the others take a "back seat".
Joanne - I can relate. LOL!
Marge - It can get cold in the winter, but it's dryer (like Az) as we're not on the coast
Dr.Liz - Lately, I've had some major family issues to deal with, which have been very time consuming for me and also for some friends helping me with them ... and work has taken a definite back seat!
Dr.Liz - So I find when I'm stressed by any one "domain" or "area" of my life, this sometimes spills into the OTHER areas.
Dr.Liz - I know better, of course, I've taught life balance before! LOL!
Dr.Liz - I did come up with a way of managing it all, that works, when I do it ... LOL!
Dr.Liz - I created a 7 x 24 schedule.
Joanne - For the past five years, my spiritual life has been overwhelming. Sometimes it seems like all I do is cry.
Dr.Liz - A month-at-a-time, 7 x 24 schedule, all 7 days of the week.
Dr.Liz - And on it, first, I scheduled how much I want to sleep.
Joanne - I used to be really good at doing schedules. No more. Now I ask myself what is the most important thing I have to do today. Believe it or not it works.
Marge - I just try to take whatever comes day to day ... trying to focused on the 'now' as much as possible ... mainly because I don't know what else to do, so I just leave it up to The Divine
Dr.Liz - And after that, personal time (showering, dressing), and eating time, then food-shopping time, walking time, then meditation time.
Dr.Liz - Then I scheduled some more of the "unschedule" items ...
Joanne - Does it leave you enough time for work? Relationships?
Dr.Liz - And found out I "should" only be working about 2 or 3 hours a day, at most, to get it all in! LOL! Which shows me I need a different approach, of course!
Joanne - You're right, Dr. Liz! Two to three hours sounds just about right!
Dr.Liz - The idea that gives me the most "juice" is one I can't yet do consistently ... it's similar to what you said, Joanne ... you said, "what is the most important thing I have to do today." ... but in my version of it, I ask, what can I do today, that will totally and completely and truly delight me in every way?
Joanne - I like your version better.
Joanne - Sometimes I think I'm a stick-in-the-mud.
Dr.Liz - Sometimes when I ask myself that question, the "I've got to do this-or-that" conversations some crashing right in like waves on rocks.
Marge - yes, I like that Liz
Dr.Liz - And I wonder, "How can I possibly do something that delights me today, when I have all this other stuff that is so important?"
Dr.Liz - And then I realize, in that moment, that I'm clearly not making MY delight, important ENOUGH! LOL!
Dr.Liz - I do sometimes struggle with that ... serving others ... delighting myself ... where is that balance?
Joanne - I'm not sure I even know what delights me anymore.
Joanne - I've just started to really laugh in the last few years.
Dr.Liz - And sometimes in my mind, I ruin the thing I originally felt would delight me, because I'm giving myself a hard time over not getting the other "stuff" done and I'm worrying about it or thinking about it when I'm moving into doing the "delighting" thing ... fortunately, however, when something delights me, it REALLY delights me, so I DO get "into it."
Dr.Liz - And then everything else in that day, seems to just be brighter and nicer.
Dr.Liz - I listened to a lecture once from someone in Arizona, who says she ONLY does things that delight her. If something doesn't delight her, she simply doesn't do it.
Marge - We need to delight in serving others ... seems to me Eckhart Tolle has a very logical and interesting chapter about this in A New Earth???
Joanne - Is she independently wealthy?
Dr.Liz - Marge, yes. Joanne, I don't know.
Joanne - I need to get that book. Thanks for the reminer Marge.
Joanne - oops -- reminder.
Marge - Joanne ... I've been a realtor for nearly 29 years now, and I have to say that many aspects of my work delight me ... even though much of it fills my entire waking day
Dr.Liz - Marge, I feel you/Tolle are correct. I'm just not always there yet. I feel really good about helping others, But I wouldn't say I feel as delightful about helping others, as I do tending my flowers or helping the animals in my wildlife habitat here.
Dr.Liz - Tending flowers, gardening, helping the animals, now THAT delights me!
Joanne - Perhaps, I'm asking the wrong question. Or rather, focused on the wrong thing.
Marge - believe me, I'm not there yet either, Liz
Dr.Liz - Voicing animals delights me.
Marge - Liz ... nothing ever delighted me as much as being with my horse and my cat
Dr.Liz - Marge, I understand that totally!
Joanne - I saw a man hand-feeding a wild squirrel today. That delighted me.
Marge - yes, I know you do
Joanne - My career has had so many ups and downs. Now I understand why. It was part of the life lessons I had assigned myself. But it leaves me not knowing who or what I am. That is my quest now!
Dr.Liz - At the "highest" level, life balance is based on a strong spiritual connection ... the feeling of delight, perhaps ... and from t hat, come the basics of health ... stress management (which would be our spiritual practice, whatever that is), physical activity, diet, water, sunshine, sleep, de-toxing, good information, good relationships with whatever or whoever we love ...
Marge - Joanne ... Liz taught me to do a Gratitude journal ... so every evening before I go to bed, I list 10 things I'm grateful for. That helps me look for things from the time I wake up til I go to sleep to be grateful for (so I'm grateful to see something as delightful as your example of the man hand-feeding a wild squirrel)
Marge - ... this has helped me 'enjoy' things throughout my day, that I'd never paid much attention to before
Dr.Liz - I wonder what the difference in our lives might be, if we created a Delight journal, instead of a Gratitude journal ... I mean, have whatever we are grateful for, also be something that totally delights us? The two together feel like a more powerful energy ... what do you think, Marge, Joanne?
Joanne - When I start feeling sorry for myself, I do start thinking about what I have to be thankful for. Perhaps, I need to be doing a journal, however.
Dr.Liz - We would do the same thing ... use the Gratitude Journal pages ... yet with the additional energy of having it be something that delights us as well ...
Joanne - I think it's a wonderful idea!
Dr.Liz - Joanne, I have a Gratitude Journal on my web-site ... you can fill it out every day, and print it out, too, if you like ...
Joanne - Thanks, I'll check it out.
Marge - Liz ... as i mentioned in my last line .. I look for things that I enjoy/that delight me and document them as being something I'm grateful for. This I really enjoy doing.
Dr.Liz - http://www.elizabethseverino.com/gratitudejournal.html
Dr.Liz - Marge, you're already doing it then ... adding the energy of enjoying/delighting to the Gratitude ... that's very powerful!
Marge - thank you Liz
Dr.Liz - I just tried out the two energies ... "just" gratitude, and gratitude/delight/enjoyment ... the latter is definitely a stronger, higher energy ... it's also an energy that has less attachment and less agenda in it ... what do you feel, Marge, Joanne, about the differences in the energies?
Marge - e.g. I was delighted to see my first white rose on my rose bush, and it's amazing fragrance ... I was very grateful for that experience.
Dr.Liz - What I mean by that is, there's less "thought", less "mental activity", in the mix of gratitude/delight/enjoyment ... that makes it higher than "just" gratitude ...
Dr.Liz - Marge, yes, I can feel that through you ...
Marge - yes
Dr.Liz - It seems our choices include to either only do things that delight us, or to make sure that there's something that delights us in everything we do ...
Dr.Liz - Perhaps then they become each other ...
Joanne - Oh yes, the energy is well delightful vs. something you should have.
Marge - Liz, that's precisely how I feel ... we need to make sure there's something that delights us in everything we do ... that's what I meant about my work as a realtor
Marge - ... I may see beautiful gardens, animals, beautiful homes, etc. etc. etc. ... amazing land and scenery, ... walk properties (while showing them) as a great form of exercise, etc.
Dr.Liz - It may be that the strongest approach to life balance, is to be in the energy of service delight/enjoyment ... and let the day unfold, trusting that whatever is to be done, will be done.
Dr.Liz - That would be "spiritual" goal setting ... since the energy of service plus delight/enjoyment is so high ...
Joanne - That's workable and livable and creates joy!
Marge - absolutely Joanne!
Marge - Joanne, Liz ... I hope to go riding tomorrow ... if I hadn't met my friend and sold her a property, I wouldn't be riding one of her horses occassionally
Dr.Liz - Marge, what you do, being a realtor, is truly a service profession ..
Dr.Liz - Marge, how wonderful! Is this the friend you were riding with when I called you on your cell, and you kindly answered?
Marge - Liz ... Service is the #1 thing that is expected of a good realtor!
Marge - yes Liz
Joanne - Especially, for people like me who are clueless about buying a house.
Dr.Liz - Joanne, LOL!
Joanne - I'm jealous. For a long time horses were my life. Hopefully, they will be coming back in my life again.
Marge - Joanne ... I can't emphasize how important it is for you to find a good realtor, not just one that wants to sell you anything just to get a commission
Dr.Liz - Marge, I just had a flash of wondering if you body was a little sad to not be physically with Cozon?
Marge - Joanne ... make it your goal. My horse Cozon crossed over 6 years ago, and I didn't start riding again til last summer
Joanne - Actually, I think I found one. Or I should say, I was led to her.
Dr.Liz - Joanne, feels perfect from here! LOL!
Marge - Liz ... all of me will always be sad not to be with Cozon.
Joanne - I'm just not sure at what level I want to be involved. I taught for years.
Dr.Liz - I know Cozon is with you, though.
Marge - Yes, I know that too, and I also know we will be together again
Dr.Liz - It's time to do the Pray portion of our Chat'N'Pray.
Dr.Liz - Ready?
Marge - ready
Joanne - I lost my horse Ben about four years ago. He came to me to let me know he's back but I'm not to be his owner. My proud blackThoroughbred is now a Warmblood. I've still to find him. He is to enter my life soon.
Joanne - I'm ready.
Marge - (lovely Joanne)
Dr.Liz - (sweet, Joanne!)
Dr.Liz - Please choose a Name, that works for you, to represent all that is Sacred and Holy and Divine in your life, and key it into the Chatroom.
Dr.Liz - Divine Power
Joanne - But he won't be mine. He will serve some purpose in my life though.
Joanne - Divine Spirit
Marge - Holy Spirit,
Dr.Liz - And now, breathe in and out, deeply, three times, while saying/feeling/thinking, your Name.
Dr.Liz - Divine Spirit, Holy Spirit, Divine Power, we call You.
Dr.Liz - We know that You are in Us, and We are in You, and that Together we Combine and are One.
Dr.Liz - Be One with Us now.
Dr.Liz - In-fill us with your Healing Power and Grace.
Dr.Liz - Make it so, that we are the instruments of healing now, for all those for whom we now pray.
Dr.Liz - All ... before me is the Basket of Blessings.
Dr.Liz - Take a moment now, and beam your hands towards your computer screens, with the intention, to beam energy to those in the Basket, before me.
Dr.Liz - Divine Power, Divine Spirit, Holy Spirit, in-fill those in the Basket with Your healing power and Grace, bringing to each petition, the true recognition of each's heart's desire.
Dr.Liz - Maek th is be so, in Grace and Perfect Ways, with Harm to None.
Dr.Liz - And it is so!
Dr.Liz - It is time now, to enter the names of any other animals, people, or situations, for whom healing prayer energy is requested.
Marge - amen
Joanne - And it i s so!
Joanne - Healing for Sophie, Dennis, Dennis' mom and Annie
Dr.Liz - For those of us here, that we may grow in unconditional love and wisom, together.
Dr.Liz - oops. wisdom.
Dr.Liz - I need to ask for better spelling, too! LOL!
Marge - amen to that Liz ... I mean the first sentence, lol
Joanne - Prayers for Julia, Kaeli, Lauren, Katie, Jack, Rori, and Finn.
Joanne - Amen! Mine could use some work too
Marge - that we all find something that delights us in everything that we do
Dr.Liz - Prayers for Bailey, Liz R., Jim B., Nicole S., Anthony B, Sr and Jr, Nicholas S., Steven F., Karen C.
Dr.Liz - Thank you, Marge!
Joanne - For this country in its time of economic and climatic need
Joanne - LOL
Marge - I have to say good night and God Bless, ... see you in two weeks
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Joanne - Good night Marge. Thanks for your wisdom and advice.
Dr.Liz - Joanne, thanks for joining in tonight! Blessings to you and Good Night!
Joanne - Good night Dr. Liz. Thank-you for your love, wisdom, and support.
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